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800 Yuan 40th Anniversary of Panda Coinage
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Currency | Second Rénmínbì (1955-date) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse description | Two giant pandas depicted in a naturalistic, playful composition set against a rocky landscape with bamboo shoots visible in the background. The larger panda is shown reclining in the upper portion of the field, while a smaller panda rests below and slightly overlapping, both rendered with exceptional sculptural relief characteristic of the Chinese Panda series. The denomination 800元 appears to the right in the field, and the specifications 50g Au.999 are inscribed in the upper left. A small commemorative privy mark denoting the 40th anniversary of the Panda coin series is present in the lower left field. |
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China's Panda bullion series launched in 1982, making this 2022 issue the official fortieth-anniversary release. The series is notably unusual among major sovereign bullion programs for having changed its reverse design almost every year since inception — a deliberate policy that has driven a secondary collector market entirely separate from the coin's gold value. The 2022 commemorative breaks from the annual-change convention to revisit imagery used in the program's early years, an intentional callback rather than a fresh commission.
The China Gold Coin Corporation, which administers the program, has used the anniversary issues to consolidate prestige around what is now one of the top five best-selling gold bullion series globally by annual mintage volume.